: : : I've been paging through books of proverbs with no luck so far. My sympathies.

: : Was the assignment given to the students or to the parents?

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: ::: Don't knock parent participation. There isn't enough of it. Are you seriously saying you never received help from your parents? Sad if it's so.
Parental help or no help. It six of one and half a dozen of the other, I always say.